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Beatles forums => Albums => Topic started by: fercarv on September 05, 2008, 03:29:02 AM
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What do you think would have happened if The Beatles released everything they made in 1967 as a double-LP? Would it have been a masterpiece or a total disaster? I think the track listing would have been something like this:
Side A:
1. Sgt. Pepper
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Hey, I'd buy it! sounds good to me!
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It couldn't be released by June 1st, 1967 of course, for a lot of songs were not even recorded. It is more an overview of 1967 rather than an extended Sgt Pepper.
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that's good.
haha I want Abbey Road album was released as a double album
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that's good.
haha I want Abbey Road album was released as a double album
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And what would you put on it?
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Well, as for the Sgt. Pepper's double album thing, would it still have it's magic? I mean, all of The Beatles albums have some sort of magic, but there's something about Sgt. Pepper's that makes it... *weird hand movement* weird and still, you can feel the magic running through you.
Eithter way, I'd buy it!
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I dont really see the point... but it will certainly be something not done before (or not often done before) .....
I think each album tells a story... so the Sgt P album has a story to it, the songs are related and all that. The same goes for all the rest albums...
Keep it to a one sided album, i'd say.
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I really don't see the point. All you've done is put everything from 1967 on to a double album. Shall we have Please Please Me and With The Beatles as a double album as well? Actually, they go together better than all of the '67 stuff!
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There's certainly an argument to be made that "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" belong on Sgt Pepper, but songs like "All Together Now" and "Flying" are throwaways, and "It's Only A Northern Song" is actually a Pepper sessions reject. As a rule of thumb- and this is just a personal crotchet, really- I prefer a focused single album to a sprawling double, especially one that would have to be loaded with filler. :)
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And what would you put on it?
i'd mix it with Let it Be album and add some songs that was only put in singles in '69.
so, this is my 'Abbey Road Double Album' track list =]
Side A (CD Disc 1)
1. Come Together
2. Dig A Pony (same as naked version)
3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
4. Oh! Darling
5. For You Blue (same as naked version)
6. Dig It
7. Something
Side B
7. Octopus's Garden
8. The Ballad Of John & Yoko
9. I Me Mine (same as naked version)
10. Two Of Us (same as naked version)
11. I've Got A Feeling (same as naked version)
12. I Want You(She's So Heavy)
Side C (CD Disc 2)
1. Here Comes The Sun
2. One After 909 (same as naked version)
3. Maggie Mae
4. Because
5. Get Back (same as naked version)
6. Old Brown Shoe
7. Across The Universe (same as naked version)
8. The Long And Winding Road (same as naked version)
Side D
9. You Never Give Me Your Money
10. Sun King
11. Mean Mr. Mustard
12.Polythene Pam
13. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
14. Golden Slumbers
15. Carry That Weight
16. The End
17. Come & Get it (demo version, same as Anthology 3)
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There's certainly an argument to be made that "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" belong on Sgt Pepper, but songs like "All Together Now" and "Flying" are throwaways, and "It's Only A Northern Song" is actually a Pepper sessions reject. As a rule of thumb- and this is just a personal crotchet, really- I prefer a focused single album to a sprawling double, especially one that would have to be loaded with filler. :)
Well, I tend to stay away from calling anything 'filler' or a 'reject' because it might be that way to one person, and not to another. I've also learned that sometimes one misses what's special or interesting about a song, only to discover it much later.
Anyway, I listened to pepper from end to end in a slow traffic jam once, and somehow my mood, the album, the hum of my engine, the warm morning, and my cup of coffee all worked together to create one of the most intense listening experiences I've ever had. I was completely focused and immersed in the music. Everything flowed and worked perfectly. I seemed to deeply experience every note played, every sound made, every pluck of every string, every word sang and every knob turned. It was surreal. I am convinced that I heard that album in the same context as teenagers did 30 years before.
For the person who asked about the "double album"... If you even had even the tiniest notion about what I'm saying here, you wouldn't have even asked the question.
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WHAT!!! No Her Majesty?